Commercial Yield and Quality of Fruits of Cucumber Plants Cultivated under Greenhouse Conditions: Response to Increases in Nitrogen Fertilization

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4171-4173

  Ruiz, Juan Manuel ^a   Romero, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Commercial yield; Cucumis sativus L.; Fruit quality; N fertilization

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 0012918831     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf980503c     Document Type: Article

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